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James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States, 1862-1867. Buchanan (1791-1868) was president from 1857 until 1861. His presidency saw the issue of slavery dominate politics, culminating in the secession of six southern slave-owning states. An engraving from volume I of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.